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< 3 in black pixelated font on pastel vertical stripes background.

< 3 in black pixelated font on pastel vertical stripes background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared…,…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • vertical stripes background
  • evenly spaced elements

Dense Caption

Black pixelated text '< 3' centered horizontally and vertically against a background of thin, evenly spaced vertical stripes. Stripes alternate between pale yellow, light green, light blue, pink, lavender, white, and off-white hues. The text consists of two distinct elements: an angled left-pointing chevron symbol followed by the numeral '3'. All pixels are static with no visible animation or motion.

Description

  • < 3 in black pixelated font on pastel vertical stripes background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071031134756627384331

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • < 3 pixel art
  • < 3 pastel stripes
  • pixelated text on vertical stripes
  • black chevron and numeral three

Visible Text

  • < 3

Wordwall

  • < 3
  • pixelated text
  • pastel vertical stripes
  • black text on light background
  • centered composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071031134756627384331
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
748 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
f3cd9615d0cd46b0
SHA-256
f3cd9615d0cd46b0c185e52e50eae5a6813587c32f4524fa30e7802bcca3cc95
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084996

OpenAI category scores

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< 3 in black pixelated font on pastel vertical stripes background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:01 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,755 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 621

Review tags

  • lavender (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light green (color, 0.80)
  • off white (color, 0.80)
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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)

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  • pale yellow
  • light green
  • light blue
  • pink
  • lavender
  • white
  • off-white

Composition

  • centered text
  • vertical stripes background
  • evenly spaced elements

Dense Caption

Black pixelated text '< 3' centered horizontally and vertically against a background of thin, evenly spaced vertical stripes. Stripes alternate between pale yellow, light green, light blue, pink, lavender, white, and off-white hues. The text consists of two distinct elements: an angled left-pointing chevron symbol followed by the numeral '3'. All pixels are static with no visible animation or motion.

Description

  • < 3 in black pixelated font on pastel vertical stripes background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071031134756627384331

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • < 3 pixel art
  • < 3 pastel stripes
  • pixelated text on vertical stripes
  • black chevron and numeral three

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist
  • static

Visible Text

  • < 3

Wordwall

  • < 3
  • pixelated text
  • pastel vertical stripes
  • black text on light background
  • centered composition
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20071031134756627384331
Archive entry
20071031134756627384331.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071031134756627384331.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071031134756627384331.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016